Your Guides

Cicerone: a trusted guide, an interpreter of sights and artifacts, as well as customs abroad

MB Austin, with filmmakers

Well before the age of steam, primarily in the 1600's and 1700's, young men of means took the European Grand Tour.  A cicerone acted as guide, tutor, even mentor to facilitate the enlightenment intended by this months to years-long period of liberal education.

When rail and steamships made the Grand Tour less grand but accessible to (gasp) middle class travelers and even (double gasp) women (chaperoned, of course), many formalities were abandoned but the role of cicerone endured.

How else might one travel to foreign lands without undue peril to life, livelihood, and appetite? Only a heedless adventurer would assume such an approach. Ridiculous! Unreasonable! Unseemly.

So naturally I could not resist.
And now I offer my humble services as you launch your own expedition through the marvelous worlds of steampunk.

Periodically, experts in various fields (zoology, anthropology, horticulture, ethno-musicology, linguistics, vampirology, and the like) will join us.

When they are not at hand, we can always call upon our Traveling Companions (note the list in your right-hand column) for a spot of advice. We are, after all, in very good company!